Man 'serious' after fireworks accident

July 10, 2012

DOWAGIAC -- A Riverside, Ill., man was in serious condition Monday at Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo, following a fireworks accident over the weekend.

Deputies with the Cass County Sheriff's Office reported Charles Harbin, 42, suffered injuries to his right hand and arm and burns to other part parts of his body about 8:55 p.m. Saturday when a firework he had fashioned with black powder and a paper-towel tube blew up as he tried to ignite it.

Harbin was airlifted from the accident scene on Maple Island Drive on Indian Lake's Maple Island.